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Check this out:

 

http://www.economist.com/world/worldthisweek/displayStory.cfm?Story_id=3600353

 

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal to restore a Florida law specifically designed to keep a severely brain-damaged woman, Terri Schiavo, alive on a feeding tube. Mrs Schiavo suffered brain damage in 1990; her husband argues that she has the right to die. Florida's governor, Jeb Bush, submits that the state has the authority to intervene in the case.

 

A federal judge delayed the execution in Connecticut (the first in New England since 1960) of Michael Ross, a serial killer who has indicated he wants to die. Arguments will now be heard as to whether Mr Ross is mentally capable of waiving his right to appeal.

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Are we losing our minds or just getting lazy?

[TOUGH STOUGH]

It's ridiculous. Murderers on death row have greater legal recourse than an innocent woman who is guilty of nothing.

[tutstar]

It's insanity, I heard about the Ross case the other day. That is plain crazy.

Whenever you look at Terri's situation it should be plain as day. It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out.

Florida Legislators have got to straighten out the problems in our statutes. Denying to give nutrition and hydration is by definition euthanasia by omission. SO IMO Jim King's legacy is a law that is unconstitutional because it's contradictory and violation of the Florida law that says euthanasia is illegal.

We can't let the USA legitimize the attack on life that the Netherlands has! We have to keep up the fight against it!-